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VHS : Great ZiegfeldIn association with Amazon.comstarring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice directed by: Robert Z. Leonard  List Price: $19.98 Price: $9.55 You Save: $10.43 (52%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790745183 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, NTSC ISBN: 0790745186 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: October 05, 1999 Running Time: 176 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 08, 1936 Sales Rank: 6335 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Great Ziegfeld stars William Powell in a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr." With admirable accuracy, the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger, and Harriet Hoctor, all of whom play themselves in the film. In the title role, Powell offers a believable combination of ambition and hucksterism, and his Thin Man costar Myrna Loy makes a late appearance as his second wife, but it's large-eyed Luise Rainer who has the showier role (and won an Oscar) as Ziegfeld's first big star and first wife. The musical numbers, however, don't hold up quite as well as the plot, and the film is overlong at 185 minutes. It's fascinating, though, to see the vintage stars performing, and the eight-minute spectacle "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is an eye-popper, with an elaborate revolving set supporting a large cast singing and dancing to the Irving Berlin tune while throwing in some Puccini, Strauss, Leoncavallo, and Gershwin for good measure. --David Horiuchi Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Oh This is Gold!The Great Ziegfeld is the example of the Golden Age in Hollywood. This is a masterpiece. Oh my God! "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" is far beyond borders... It is exquisit to see this kind of numbers.. I am really proud to have seen this marvelous, glorious film. This is pure gold!!!.. A too much deserved Oscar for Best picture of 1936. MGM proved to be "Champion In Musical Pictures".. But I am really amazed by this all star cast movie.. I can only say Oh My God!! Rating:  - they don't make 'em like they used toTHE GREAT ZIEGFELD was another big one for MGM, a biopic extravaganza in which the life of Florenz Ziegfeld was used as a sounding board for a variety of ever more spectacular musical numbers. Along the way, there are brief respites for some guest stars (Ray Bolger and Fanny Brice - her line, "For Ziegfeld, I gotta be an urchin... even in burlesque, I was middle-class", is priceless), and mind-numbing musical numbers (how were those supposed to be done live on stage?), tied to a story of Ziegfeld's ... Read More Rating: - "Ziegfeld" Merely GoodI'd be a little kinder to this film if it hadn't won the Best Picture Oscar. Adding insult to injury is that "Dodsworth" didn't win. The debits here are overlength, superficial storytelling, skindeep biographical study, and generally weak production numbers. To it's credit the film contains strong performances by William Powell, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, and Frank Morgan. Good cameos by Fanny Brice and Ray Bolger. The production does have stunning direction and costume design. "The Great Ziegfeld" ... Read More Rating: - A Best Picture decision that hasn't held up over timeThis movie is worthwhile viewing for any fan of classic cinema or William Powell, but over 70 years later it's hard to see why this film won Best Picture of 1936 and a film like "Dodsworth" lost. Today it does seem overly long on musical numbers that could have been cut and short on storyline. There are probably several reasons that the picture could have been better and wasn't, the primary reason being that at the time the film was made Ziegfeld had only been dead four years and was thus still fondly and ... Read More Rating: - A Best Picture decision that hasn't held up over timeThis movie is worthwhile viewing for any fan of classic cinema or William Powell, but over 70 years later it's hard to see why this film won Best Picture of 1936 and a film like "Dodsworth" lost. Today it does seem overly long on musical numbers that could have been cut and short on storyline. There are probably several reasons that the picture could have been better and wasn't, the primary reason being that at the time the film was made Ziegfeld had only been dead four years and was thus still fondly and ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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